Pickens County, SC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,550 ft 1,080 m2,820 ft 860 m2,450 ft 745 m1,710 ft 520 m980 ft 300 m610 ft 185 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Pickens County averages about 1,110 ft (340 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 610 ft on the southwest side to 3,550 ft on Sassafras Mountain.
Average elevation
1,110 ft 340 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,550 ft 1,082 m
on Sassafras Mountain
Lowest
610 ft 185 m
on the southwest side
Pickens County spans about 2,940 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,110 ft340 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Sassafras Mountain (NGS survey height) | 3,550 ft1,082 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 610 ft185 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
24 mi west to east through Easley.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in South Carolina, United States
- Population
- 138,207 2024 est.
- Land area
- 497.0 sq mi + 15.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 278 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Piedmont 67%, Blue Ridge 33%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Transylvania County, NC2,860 ft
- Oconee County1,130 ft
- Pickens County1,110 ft
- Greenville County1,080 ft
- Anderson County760 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in South Carolina2nd highest of 46
- Counties in the United States1,231st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Sassafras Mountain3,550 ft
- Hickorynut Mountain3,480 ft
- Pinnacle Mountain3,420 ft
- Rock Mountain3,320 ft
- Caesars Head3,200 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.